KENTUCKY
The News-Enterprise
By ERICA WALSH
An Elizabethtown couple is suing a Glendale church after their daughter was sexually abused by the church's youth minister.
A civil suit was filed May 25 in Hardin Circuit Court against Sand Springs Church of God, its pastor, Charles Duke, and Duke's son, Nicky.
The suit claims that Glendale resident Nicky Duke, 40, molested the couple's then 14-year-old daughter in early 2003. Nicky Duke was Sand Springs Church of God's youth leader at the time.
The suit claims the daughter "has and will endure great pain and suffering, both physical and mental." The News-Enterprise does not identify victims of sexual abuse who are minors.
The couple also believes that Charles Duke was negligent in hiring Nicky Duke "with full knowledge of previous criminal activity" and continuing to keep him as an employee after the abuse claims came to light.
Posted by kshaw at June 9, 2005 06:31 AM